Oscars 2025: 5 Filmmakers Nominated for Best Director & Their Best Movies

In just one month, we will find out who will succeed Christopher Nolan, who won the Best Director category in 2024.

This year's nominees include Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, James Mangold, Jacques Audiard and Coralie Fargeat. We tell you what other movies to see from the Oscar contenders.

1. Ford v Ferrari (2019) – James Mangold

To increase the brand's popularity and improve the company's image, Henry Ford II decided to challenge Ferrari himself. He puts together a team, organizes the assembly of a new racing car and declares a team for the Le Mans race.

The designer of the car is the brilliant Carroll Shelby, and his main condition is the inclusion of the racer Ken Miles in the team. Before going out on the track, the men must find out all the shortcomings of the car and figure out how to overtake Ferrari.

2. The Florida Project (2017) – Sean Baker

Six-year-old Moonee lives with her mother in a cheap Florida motel. The girl spends hot weekdays outside in the company of friends: the kids argue with neighbors, explore the neighborhood, climb into abandoned houses, and try to avoid the attention of a strict but caring manager.

Sean Baker shows viewers everyday life through the eyes of a child: the camera, almost always at Moonee's eye level, follows the kids' mischievous pranks.

3. Revenge (2017) – Coralie Fargeat

Coralie Fargeat has the most modest filmography of all this year's nominees. But of course we are only talking about quantity. The Substance is the filmmaker's second feature-length project.

Before that, Fargeat directed one of the episodes of The Sandman for Netflix, but her career began with the revenge thriller Revenge, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

According to the plot, a young woman, Jen, goes on a romantic trip with her boyfriend. Things do not go according to plan when the owner's friends unexpectedly arrive at the secluded house.

4. The Childhood of a Leader (2015) – Brady Corbet

Brady Corbet's first film, the drama The Childhood of a Leader, won him two awards at the Venice Film Festival.

The movie is set in France: a boy with an angelic appearance, Prescott, is the son of a diplomat who helps to sign peace agreements after the First World War. Left to his own devices, the child quickly becomes a tyrant and future dictator.

5. A Prophet (2009) – Jacques Audiard

The drama of a 19-year-old inmate who hardens himself in prison by carrying out a series of dangerous, bloody missions is perhaps one of the most powerful and subtle films dedicated to the psychology of a criminal.

It was not for nothing that the film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film.